MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Germany-based AV-Test has announced a recent independent analysis of BitDefender's antivirus engine found almost 100 percent of malware was detected.
California-based BitDefender is a global antivirus software and data security solutions provider.
In the test by AV-Test, a business-information workgroup at the Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, BitDefender's patent-pending B-HAVE antivirus engine detected 99.51 percent of the malware.
“We are very pleased with the results of this test and will strive to continue leading the pack among top antivirus vendors,” said Bogdan Dumitru, BitDefender’s chief technology officer, in a statement. “AV-Test’s results demonstrate BitDefender’s ongoing commitment to providing home and SMB users with solutions that offer the absolute highest levels of malware protection.”
Measuring the capabilities of 29 competing single and multi-engine antivirus solutions the AV-Test, which was performed earlier this month, analyzed the security software on the ability to detect nearly 1 million different pieces of malware using the most up-to-date signatures.
AT-Test officials say validated samples of malware found in the wild and collected by AV-Test in the past six months were the only samples used in the testing process.
